Ch9
The elevator ride up to the top of the tower was AWESOME! I'd never felt butterflies in my tummy from an elevator before, but this one took the cake! Either way, I soon found myself on a very VERY high platform along with Jak and Daxter. I looked down and knew that one slip up would mean instant death. "Okay... this is a little too high for my tastes..." I gulped as I slowly stepped onward.
"What? You're not scared of heights are you?" Jak asked. "You try being a girl that's never even been on a Ferris heel! This is the highest I've ever been and I know that if I mess up, I'm dead meat. Okay?!" I growled back at him, my fear affecting my emotions a bit. (You want me to take over scaredy pants?) (Y-Yeah... I wouldn't mind that now actually...)
I let Malice go out and Jak chuckled a bit when he saw how brave she was as opposed to me. She flew right over the fried parts of the cable and even went so far as to wait for Jak to arrive to tackle the bullet hell turret guns. "Wanna go together, hot rod?" Malice asked Jak. "Um... sure... yeah," Jak said, feeling a tad awkward about this mission with Malice. Either way, they both made it over the area quickly, but it was stopped by Malice accidentally tripping on the edge of the platform.
(CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRRAAAAPPP!) I exclaimed as I felt our body slowly falling backwards and not having anything to land on below us. "AAHH!" Malice shrieked as I yelled "NNOOOOOOOOOO!" as loud as I could. I then felt a strange power... and I was suddenly in control! I looked behind my back and noticed something I didn't expect to be there. Wings! (I-Is this even posssible?!) exclaimed Malice in my mind. All I knew was that I was actually flapping all by myself, not even trying to fly yet I was flying.
When I finally joined up with Jak and Daxter, they were both looking at the conversation with the Baron and the Metal Head Leader. "Hey, I'm not dead you know?" I smiled, stunning the two big time to the point where they ALMOST made a noise. What I didn't get, however, was that I was still in... what I assumed to be Light mode. My body was a pure light blue and I decided it best to just stand back as the boys watched the scene unfold. "He's toying with us! Let me lead an assault on the nest! I can take him!" exclaimed Errol.
"Patience Commander... no one has ever penetrated the Metal Head Nest, you know that... I've seen what comes of such foolish efforts. No! Strength is their weakness. We play helpless, teach them to eat from our hands... and then... we... move forward with the plan! Tell Ashelin to up her patrols! I want that tomb found!" Baron Praxis monologued. "But your daughter has not been agreeable..." "I'll see to that... one way or another." "Ashelin is the Baron's daughter?!" Jak asked in a hushed voice. "And find that child! If you spent more time trying to find him than you spend flirting with that mechanic girl, you'd have found him by now-"
That was when Daxter sneezed and the two had to hide as I had somehow activated some kind of invisibility with light mode. "What was that?!" exclaimed Errol. After slowly getting barely out of that without a bullet shot at us, we proceeded around the other corner ahead and were met with something I expected coming and still was afraid to see... but not when I had my light powers now from out of nowhere!
"So! We have a rat in the walls, eh? A rat and his boy it seems! Back for a few more Dark Eco treatments?!" he growled through his communicator. "Oh, we're so ready for this!" I smiled, activating what I assumed was light freeze as movement for Jak and Praxis was slowed to but a crawl. I smirked and jumped up, landing directly on the octopod thingy he was flying in and breaking the capsule with my fist. Then light freeze wore off and I jumped off the Baron's capsule, leaving him dazed and confused as well as Jak and Daxter.
"Wh-What just happened?!" Jak exclaimed as the octopod thingy exploded and Baron Praxis barely got out of it alive, flying away in his pod. "Those dark powers I gave you two can't protect you forever! Since I made you, I can destroy you! We'll meet again soon!" he growled as he flew off in a huff. "Yeah, whatever. Buh-bye!" Daxter smirked. (Now that was funny!) Malice giggled in my brain. (Shushies!) I groaned. "So... how do we get down from here?" Jak asked, looking at the electric barrier that somehow didn't deactivate.
I then got a brilliant idea and sent out my wings once more, Jak and Daxter in awe at them. "Well? What are you waiting for? Hop on!" I smiled, getting the two to latch onto my legs (and Daxter hold onto my head) and I flew from the top of the palace all the way down to the Underground hideout. "Whoa! Where'd ya learn to do that?!" Jak asked with giddy eyes. "Errol, when I beat him up, said that, for some reason, I had an unlimited flow of... light eco in my body..." I sighed. "What?!" "And I only just figured out how to use it! If Malice hadn't nearly got us killed, I'd have never been able to activate it!" (Yeah, your welcome bitch...) (Stop calling me that... and thanks... but I was the one that saved us, not you, so zip it!) (Whatever...) (Yeah, whatever...)